The end of days : African American religion and politics in the age of emancipation / Matthew Harper.
Material type: TextPublisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781469629384
- 1469629380
- 9781469629377
- 1469629372
- African Americans -- Southern States -- Religion
- African Americans -- Southern States -- History
- African Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions
- Freed persons -- Southern States -- Social conditions
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
- Noirs am�ericains -- �Etats-Unis (Sud) -- Religion
- Noirs am�ericains -- �Etats-Unis (Sud) -- Histoire
- Noirs am�ericains -- �Etats-Unis (Sud) -- Conditions sociales
- Personnes affranchies -- �Etats-Unis (Sud) -- Conditions sociales
- RELIGION -- Christianity -- History
- RELIGION -- Faith
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
- African Americans
- African Americans -- Religion
- African Americans -- Social conditions
- Freed persons -- Social conditions
- Southern States
- United States
- 1865-1877
- 277.5/08108996073 23
- BR563.B53 H357 2016eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : His plan for them was clear -- A nation born in a day -- Redemption and exile -- Exodus and jubilee -- A jeremiad -- A table prepared by our enemies -- Epilogue : some great plan.
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For four million slaves, emancipation was a liberation and resurrection story of biblical proportion, both the clearest example of God's intervention in human history and a sign of the end of days. Matthew Harper demonstrates how black southerners' theology, in particular their understanding of the end times, influenced nearly every economic and political decision they made in the aftermath of emancipation.
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